Dmenu Xft

cd /tmp/ wget "http://lists.suckless.org/dev/att-6474/dmenu-4.2.1-xft-cleanup-db.patch" apt-get source suckless-tools cd suckless-tools-38/dmenu/ patch -p1 < /tmp/dmenu-4.2.1-xft-cleanup-db.patch sudo apt-get build-dep suckless-tools sudo apt-get install libxft-dev

Edit and add a new patch entry

suckless-tools (38-1-xft) unstable; urgency=low * xft patch -- James Robertson  Sat, 25 Aug 2012 22:29:00 +1000

Build the package and install it:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b sudo dpkg -i /tmp/suckless-tools_38-1-xft_amd64.deb

The run it with the desired font, e.g.

dmenu_run -fn "Liberation Mono-8"

http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/patches/xft